ABC is getting into the management business.
The network on Wednesday handed out a pilot order to Bad Management, single-camera comedy about a slightly self-centered female boss at a high-end luxury goods department store who finds her way challenged when the boss' son comes to town and makes youth and sex the new company focus.
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The ABC Studios, Kapital Entertainment entry will be written by Holly Walsh (Dead Boss) and Sharon Horgan, the writer/exec producer/actress behind British import Pulling, an adaptation of which also scored a pilot order at the network this season. Horgan will star as the boss in the comedy and executive produce the network's Pulling pilot.
Kapital Entertainment's Aaron Kaplan will executive produce, marking the former TV agent turned prolific producer's fifth order of the season. Management joins NBC's Gates, ABC's Pulling, an untitled Cullens effort and CBS' Friends With Better Lives in contention.
This marks ABC's eighth comedy pilot order so far this season.
Horgan's credits also include Free Agents, Dead Boss and Big Babies. Bad Management reunites Horgan with her Dead Boss co-creator Walsh. The Jennifer Saunders comedy has aired six episodes so far on BBC Three.
